Like I say, in most videos,
there's no one best product in this case, a 60 inch professional range.
But actually for this video,
I take it back, there is one best 60 inch professional range.
I'll show it to you last and you'll understand why.
But you'll have a hard time shopping
for a 60 inch range and I understand the dilemma.
You walk in a store and see perhaps one if you're lucky not to slander Yale,
but we only have 3 60 inch ranges ranges on display per store.
It's also a confusing product to buy.
You do have plenty of choices yet limited brands.
In this video, you learn the features
and problems of all the best 60 inch ranges except for the one best range.
At the end of the video, you can also download or free pro cooking
buying guide for more detailed information on all the major brands.
You have a total of eight, 60 inch range choices in their lineup.
Five Dual fuel, three and All-gas. Wolf has good output and the only blower convection
range in their dual fuel. The griddle and grill for both gas and dual fuel are
all infrared gas, not electric, for better response and easier cleaning
and for an intense directed heat for better, searing,
intense heat also burns off the drippings for easier cleaning.
You also have a French top option with Wolf as well.
French tops allow you to cook at different temperatures at the same time so you could
be boiling in the middle while simmering on the outside.
So it works opposite of the even heat of a griddle.
You leave your food in the pots as well instead of placing them on the surface.
Typically you would consider Dual fuel
with an electric oven for its dryer, heat for baking.
While gas is moisture and better
for roasting gas boilers are also better than electric.
However, Wolf adds features in their dual fuel as well.
The cooking surface will be the same in the French top grill and grill.
However, the burners are more powerful than a dual
fuel out of 20000 BTU max versus 15000 in all-gas.
The oven controls are completely different.
You have light up of a knob's plus a touch screen in Dual fuel for controls.
Dual fuel is also self-cleaning with their
new Verticross blower convection versus non self-cleaning single convection
in the all-gas you also Wolf smooth, smart functionality and their dual fuel as
well as with the ability to control the stove remotely from an app plus their
gourmet mode, allowing you to access fifty preprogram recipes and foods.
The broiler, however, in the all-gas model is better
with infrared versus electric in the dual fuel there dual fuel may be the most
versatile oven on this list with good output options like French tops.
In a better convection system with basic smart functionality,
their gas is a bit underpowered, is only a convection, non self-cleaning.
Thermador, will offer four 60 inch ranges the lineup, all of which are dual fuel,
they're precision swimmers, intermittent, which means it will cycle on and off
to maintain a very low temperature of 100 degrees.
These ranges will provide decent output,
one 12500, one 15000 two eighteens, and a 22000 BTU burner induction is
an option and a great option as it's the fastest to boil and simmer.
You have a two burner induction option as well.
You can choose a full steam oven instead of a second oven so that you can cook
a meal and steam steam adds moisture and doesn't take out the nutrients.
The warm and dry up will keep food warm for up to three hours.
It's a good future if you cook and your family eats another time.
Thermador is probably the best on this list
with smart functionality, including recipe tie ins with their home connected app.
Like the others, they have different grill and grill combinations.
The biggest difference is if you want a steam oven with a warming
drawer below or straight double ovens, the grill, grill or electric.
So they're a bit slower than gas.
The ovens are single convection as well. Steam oven
is a decent consideration,
but you lose capacity from the regular four cubic foot oven.
You do not have a gas option on a Thermador 60 inch range.
So you may want another option if you like to roast or broil.
All 60 inch BlueStar ranges can be customized with a thousand colors
for range finishes plus 10 different trim options, BlueStar offers tremendous
variety with their 60 inch lineup offering nine different 60 inch range options
in two different series, the Platinum and the RNB. BlueStar
double grilles, double griddles and French tops as well.
And they also have the third element
convection gas for even baking their platinum is the most powerful with two 25000
BTU three 22000 two 18000 two 50000 BTU burners.
Also, it's the third element convection
for the only pure convection gas range available for even heating.
The RNB is a bit less powerful, still maxing it to 22000 and 50000 BTU burners.
However, the RNB has an integrated Brewing
griddle for more consistent temperature, and platinum is an all burner range
available with a portable reversible grill griddle GE RNB is also straight convection
versus the third element convection of the platinum.
It's not available on Dual fuel and probably will never have
a self-cleaning oven or clock or timer much less smart functionality.
The Grill and Griddle, the RNB a regular gas or infrared.
So that will not evaporate the drippings like the infrared will.
Viking has experienced many recent changes that credit for developing the first pro
range is, but now a subsidiary of the commercial Middle B company.
It's tough to talk about Viking without
mentioning past service issues to be transparent.
We like Viking. We don't carry a line.
They offer to 60 inch ranges in our lineup
one in Dual fuel one and All-gas Viking BTU output's are five
fifteen thousand and one at eighteen thousand five hundred.
You can order 17 finishes, colors and stainless.
The touching line is an Italian style pro range with greater BTU for less price.
Viking is 260 inch ranges and Dual fuel All-gas like Wolf.
They have the same general specs.
Just order which type is better based on how you cook.
You have to compromise in every pro range,
both in the oven and what kind of module's you want on the top with a grill griddle,
French top reduction La Cornue is the exception.
The Chateau is almost completely customizable.
It's still handmade.
In their French factory,
you have a choice of nine different cooktop options encompassing French top
grill, wok, Teppanyaki, induction Module, even an all induction cooktop to every
conceivable cooking option and every other range.
You'll have to choose between gas or Dual fuel except La Cornue.
You have both electric and gas and Chateau range is gas with its moisture.
Heat for roasting the electric oven is designed for baking with its dryer heat.
La Cornue uses natural convection
with the arch tops, with air flown in from the bottom of the oven.
It's best for baking or roasting while
leaving moisture in your food without using a fan.
In terms of color, the Chateau is the most
elegant range available with 50 colors in 8 trims, and you can even customize
your own with La Cornue you're buying a piece of furniture as well as the stove.
However, there is still two problems with the Château range.
First, the price is roughly three times
the other ranges on this list, averaging about fifty nine thousand dollars.
Secondly, availability has been poor with six month lead times.
60 inch professional ranges require more maintenance than any other appliance.
Then again, a 60 inch ranges to regular
ranges with more power and more combinations on the top, Pro range,
GE's and gas require service thirteen point four six percent of the time or dual
fuel require service at 30 percent just in the first year.
As you read this, you know,
you will need a service statistically at least twice while you own your range.
Along with looking at features, figure out the best repair agents in your
area, fortunately, will differ by brand and by region.
The best depends on how you use your
range, you tend to make them the Dual fuel,
Wolf and Thermador should be your consideration for roasting BlueStar,
Viking and All-gas Wolf are better after that depends on what you value.
Do you want better power?
Siemering or broiling? Would you steam?
How important is a grill grill a French top?
As you said in the beginning, there is no definitive choice without spending 59000.
What you want to do is match each range
attributes and drawbacks with the way you cook.
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